SemiOT: Mourning for Classic Computing

I do not mind that programmers vote Democratic... Seriously, what's a demo programmer? A programmer who writes only demo software? As in mock-ups? Prototypes? And I hate to pick nits, but no one can "practice assembler" anymore than they can "practice compiler". They _write_ assembly language; if it must be shortened, it should be to "assembly", not "assembler". But if I'm stumbling into a British usage vs. American usage, please forgive me, I pick nits, but prefer not to be an errant pedant. And I would not consider people writing in assembly language to be at the bottom rungs, at least not by virture of the language they're using. In fact, I am locally renknowned as one of if not the best assembly language programmer available (again, locally). Too bad the demand has dried up. Regards, -dq